8:16 AM,
Oct. 27, 2012

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, and President Barack Obama pass each other on stage during Monday's debate in Boca Raton, Fla.

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CLARENCE PAGE

Obama's final debate with Mitt Romney wasn't nearly as fascinating as the debate that Romney appeared to be having with himself.

With a smiling smoothness that even would amaze Zelig, the hero of Woody Allen's movie about a human chameleon, Obama's Republican challenger transformed in their final presidential debate into an even kindlier, gentler version of the Moderate Mitt he presented in the first two.

With foreign policy as the topic, Romney slid even farther away in this debate from the self-described "severely conservative" posture he eagerly embraced during his party's ...